What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

Even writers need relief from words.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.